The 12 May, 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
The Sichuan earthquake (四川地震) or Wenchaun earthquake (汶川地震) on 12 May 2008 was the most devastating earthquake in China in the past 30 years. In order to obtain quantitative, predictive models of earthquake hazard in the region, we studied the ground motion generated by the earthquake and, in collaboration with China University of Geosciences (Beijing) and China Academy of Geosciences, installed 26 seismic stations in northern Sichuan, southern Gansu, and Qinghai provinces within three weeks of the earthquake to monitor aftershocks and the seismicity in the area (more).Latest News and Announcements
May, 2008: Yang Shen, Zhigang Zhang, Xiaofeng Liang, and a team of seismologists from University of Missouri, China University of Geosciences, and China Academy of Geosciences carried out the first deployment of seismic stations in the NorthEast Tibetan plateau Seismic experiment.April, 2008: Zhigang Zhang gave an invited seminar at MIT on the cross-dependence of P waveforms on shear-wave speed. Yang Shen gave an invited presentation in the special session celebrating the heritage of F. A. Dahlen at the SSA meeting in Santa Fe.
December, 2007: The new supercomputer finally arrived at GSO and was successfully assembled by the group (photos). It will provide the computational power needed for fully 3D finite-frequency tomography.
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